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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
SUTRA 26
BTTĪS PU54147 || RĘ II Ato(a)nyatpapam (26) All other types of karma are negative karma (paapa). (26)
Negative karma brings about a disagreeable subjective feeling of life and often blocks or obstructs inner growth.
Negative karma (paapa) is also always and exclusively the result of our very own actions and attitudes. Uncomfortable circumstances of life, problems, lack of recognition etc. demonstrate vividly that we now or at an earlier time created the basis for this problematic environment or negative emotional state all by ourselves through our own emotional attachment to limiting themes of life. Since this (personal) karma will manifest in any case, we should not try to ignore it.
Though the manifestation of negative (as well as positive) karma is limited in time, negative karma has the unpleasant characteristic to easily produce new karma of the same type upon its manifestation. This is caused by a renewed (intense) emotional reaction when we experience the results of the (previously bound) negative karma. To break out of this vicious circle of constantly repeating experiences we need to become aware of this automatic mechanism.
As long as we do not dissolve our emotional attachment to limiting themes of life - i.e. as long as our interactive karmic field still contains the respective karmic molecules - we cannot prevent the manifestation of negative karmas. Yet all manifestation of negative karma is always and only an indication that at this very moment the bond between us and the respective amount of karmic molecules is in the process of being dissolved.
Any attempt to locate the cause for negative situations outside of us - as is customary in the (flawed) Western understanding of the world's mechanisms - will never give us access to the real cause of
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